12 signature Tony Bennett jazz recordings

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Aug. 13, 2014

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Tony Bennett's lifelong passion for jazz has yielded a number of signature recordings. Here are a dozen favorites. Not not all of Bennett's A-list records are here. Among the missing are the sublime "The Movie Song Album" (1966) and the Sinatra tribute "Perfectly Frank" (1992). But these 12 play up the the jazzy side of Bennett with work spanning five decades, from the 1950s through the 1990s.

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■"Cloud 7" (Columbia). Recorded in 1954 and issued in early '55, Bennett's first 12-inch LP marked a departure from his early ...